GCP DEVOPS ENGINEER (Cloud Infrastructure

Experience5+ years of professional DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineering experience3+ years of hands-on experience with Terraform in production environments (preferably managing 50+ resources)3+ years of production experience on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent (AWS/Azure) with deep expertise in 2+ major GCP services2+ years managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)Proven experience building and maintaining disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) strategiesExperience operating customer-facing, high-availability services with 99%+ uptime targetsTrack record of incident response and on-call operations in production environments Technical Skills - GCP & Cloud Platforms Core GCP ServicesCompute: Deep expertise with Cloud Run (containerized workloads), Cloud Functions (serverless), Compute EngineDatabases: Firestore (NoSQL), BigQuery (data warehouse), Cloud SQL (relational databases)Messaging & Streaming: Pub/Sub, DataflowStorage: Cloud Storage (GCS), Firestore Backup & Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)Networking: VPC, Cloud Load Balancer, Cloud Armor, VPN, Cloud InterconnectSecurity: Cloud IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, Security Command CenterMonitoring & Observability: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, ProfilerDeployment & Orchestration: Cloud Deploy, GKE (optional but valuable) Infrastructure-as-Code & TerraformAdvanced Terraform proficiency: modules, variables, outputs, state management, remote backendsTerraform best practices: version control, testing, CI/CD integrationTerraform Cloud / Enterprise (optional, valuable for remote state management)Terraform testing frameworks: Terratest, checkov, terraform validate, tflintPolicy-as-Code: OPA/Conftest or similar for infrastructure policy enforcementHands-on experience managing 50+ cloud resources with TerraformGit workflow and code review processes for infrastructure code CI/CD & Deployment AutomationGitHub Actions expertise (workflow design, custom actions, secrets management)GitHub Advanced Security: code scanning, dependency scanning, secret scanningContainer technologies: Docker, container registries (Artifact Registry, Container Registry)Blue-green and canary deployment strategiesInfrastructure-as-Code testing and validation in pipelinesAutomated rollback and disaster recovery proceduresMonitoring deployment quality metrics Observability & MonitoringOpenTelemetry instrumentation and integrationGoogle Cloud Monitoring and Cloud LoggingSentry for error tracking and alertingDashboard design and visualization (Grafana, Cloud Monitoring dashboards)Alert design, incident triage, and escalation proceduresMetrics collection, tracing, and debugging distributed systems